• Food fight: Jennifer Rubell
    Artist Jennifer Rubell reckons that we lost control of our food culture when women left the kitchen for the workplace. >
  • Cheese from humans
    Cheese made from human breast milk comments on the lack of self-reflection in food design. >
  • The ingredients of good writing
    Espresso for Marcel Proust, vinegar for Lord Byron, milk for Franz Kafka and other ingredients of good writing. >
  • Photo: Steph Goralnick.
    Seeing the meat for the peas
    Can a vegetarian and an omnivore share the same meal without compromise? The Doppelganger Dinner makes it almost possible, >
  • Food deskjet
    If you can print fashion and furniture with 3D printing techniques, it follows that we should also be able to print food. The Fab@Home project investigates. >
  • Benefit bus
    The Do Good Bus and Indie-pop band Foster the People recently toured North America, volunteering services as they went along. >
  • Beautiful boards
    Loyal Dean's longboards are inspired by shapes and forms found in nature and crafted using reclaimed lumber. >
  • How to eat
    A new edition of Michael Pollan's Food Rules comes with gorgeous illustrations by Maira Kalman. >
  • Bobble by Karim Rashid.
    Water wise
    Karim Rashid's colourful Bobble water jug is ideal for filtering water, it looks good and it's 100% recyclable. >
  • Colour me healthy
    The colourful Nature Matching System works to remind you to consume the right colour combination of fruit and veg every day. >
  • Food political
    Conflict Kitchen is a restaurant concept that educates patrons about the culture and politics of countries that the USA are in conflict with. >
  • Made to fit
    The Kickstand desk allows you to kill two birds with one stone - get your desk job done and keep fit. >
  • Food fight: Zoe Coombes
    Product designer and architect Zoe Coombes feels that food culture has a lot to teach other creative fields. >
  • Health function
    Taking functional jewellery to a whole new level, Jawbone’s UP wristband helps you monitor your health. >
  • Map away
    MAPS is a wonderful collection of cartographical pieces created by Paula Scher over the past 20 years. >
  • Pick up sticks
    From stir stick to super-sized sculptures. Artist Jonathan Brilliant takes coffee stirrers and turns them into awe-inspiring installations. >
  • J.W. Johnson Photography www.jwjimaging.com.
    Yield the signs
    Discarded road traffic signs are given a second life by designer Boris Bally who turns it into bold and interesting furniture pieces. >
  • Well strung
    Traditional net-weaving techniques, as used by local fishermen in India, are used to create large-scale string sculptures. >
  • Pieces of mind
    Ji Lee's Pieces of Mind project uses thousands of little Buddha statues to remind people to live in the moment and get a bit of peace of mind. >
  • Graphic design now
    Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more. >
  • New rules of work
    Employees pay attention: The New Rules of Work are that decaf has been criminalised... and other workplace truths and absurdities. >
  • Save the post office
    Tucker Nichols has some clever ideas for tag lines that might endear people to snail mail and the post office again. >
  • Design and urbanisation exhibition
    Design with the Other 90%: Cities looks at how design can help to manage the complex issues arising from rapid urbanisation in the global south. >
  • Safe bike
    By locking the handlebars of a bicycle, the Senza bike lock system makes it virtually impossible to steal this friendly mode of transport. >

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